Why kapt needs `java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/JAXBException`?

# kapt

[Eugen Martynov]

Why kapt needs java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/JAXBException?

[gildor]

Because it uses this API for binding XML to classes (like GSON does for Json), it uses XML a lot, I would do the same on their place and do not parse XML manually